CLINICAL LAB SCIENEC

APPENDIX B 439
Word Prefix, Root, Suffix
Definition, Pertaining to
Word Prefix, Root, Suffix
Definition, Pertaining to
-poietin
poikil/o
poliopoly-
hormone with stimulatory
effect, e.g., erythropoietin
variation, irregular
gray
many
-schisis
-sclerosis
scoli/o
-scope
cleft or splitting
hardening
curved
instrument for viewing body
cavity
porosis-
porous
seb/o
sebu (sweat oils)
post-
after
sect/o
cut
poster/o
dorsal, back
sialanden/o
salivary glands
-prandial
meal
-sis
condition
pre-
before
somat/o
body
presby-
old age
son/o
sound
primi-
first
-spadisa
opening, split or tear
pro-
before
-spasm
involuntary contraction
proct/o
rectum
sperm/o, spermat/o
sperm
prostate/o
prostate gland
spin/o
spine, backbone
proxim/o
near, close
spondyl/o
vertebrae
pseudo-
false
-stasis
standing, stoppage
-ptosis
drooping
steat/o
fat
-ptysis
spitting
-stenosis
narrowing
py/o
pus
stern/o
breastbone
pyel/o
renal pelvis
steth/o
chest
pylor/o
distal portion of stomach
-stitial
pertaining to location
quadro-
four
-stomy
new surgical opening
radicul/o
nerve roots
-su
condition or thing
re-
back
sub-
under
ren/o
kidney
super/o
above or toward the head
reticul/o
connected network
supinati/o
supination
retr/o
backward, behind
supra-
above, beyond, excessive
rhabd/o
rod-shaped or striated
sym-
together, with
rhin/o
-rrhage
-rrhagia
-rrhaphy
-rrhea
-rrhexis
salping/o
-salpinx
-sarcoma
nose
bursting forth
bursting forth
suture, sew
flow or discharge
rupture
eustachian, fallopian, and
uterine tubes
fallopian tube, uterine tube
malignant tumor of connective
tissue
synovi/o
tachy-
-taxia
ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
tenosynovi/o
tens/o, tensi/o
testicul/o, test/o
tetrathalam/o
synovial membrane
(joints)
fast
coordination, order of
pertaining to tendons
tendon sheath (covering of
tendon)
tension, stretch
testes
four
thalamus
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